Last month, teams of scientists finalized their reports on how the Dragon Bravo Fire impacted the environment across its 145,000-acre burn area.

They found about 65% burned at a low severity but almost a third suffered moderate and high impacts.

KNAU’s Adrian Skabelund spoke with U.S. Department of the Interior Burned Area Emergency Response Team leader TJ Clifford.

ADRIAN SKABELUND: Can you speak through, in maybe layman's terms, what those areas look like and what that means?

TJ CLIFFORD: For sure. Moderate and high severity, at first glance, the vegetation mortality– the trees have died, and that is consistent throughout Forest Service, Park Service, lands.

But then you come down– soil burn severity is specific to how those soils have been impacted. It's mild and it's not that de

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